The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
TACITUSThings are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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